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Windows 11 adds native support for RAR, 7-Zip, Tar and other archive formats thanks to open-source library::undefined

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Office support also exists for the majority of editors so why not just use what people are used to?

Why not just send a zip?

There's no advantage to the receiver for either of these.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

ODF works on everything. It's reliable and fully documented. The MS office implementation contradicts its own specification and breaks. A lot.

The PK-Zip file format was released in the year 1989. The compression is terrible by modern standards.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Zip almost always results in larger archive files...